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<p>[QUOTE="John Conduitt, post: 5412666, member: 109923"]Very nice. Yes I guess so many coins suddenly started coming out of the London mint (after Carausius set it up) the main reason for all the imitations was removed, so that just left the fraudsters. That would explain why the portrait, Genio and the legends are actually pretty good for a barbarous coin, as it had to fool people.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a barbarous Theodora, wife of Tetrarchy emperor Constantius Chlorus and possibly daughter of Maximian. It was found in Britain but imitates Trier. Like the originals, it was made in the Constantinian era, even though Theodora was empress in 305-306, presumably because the London mint closed in 325 and there was again a lack of coins for commerce.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Flavia Maximiana Theodora/Constantinopolis hybrid, c340AD</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1234592[/ATTACH]</p><p>Obverse should be FL MAX THEO-DORAE AVG but is incomplete and backwards. Reverse is Constantinopolis standing on a prow of a ship, holding scepter and shield, ZPT in exergue (the mirror of TRS for Trier)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Conduitt, post: 5412666, member: 109923"]Very nice. Yes I guess so many coins suddenly started coming out of the London mint (after Carausius set it up) the main reason for all the imitations was removed, so that just left the fraudsters. That would explain why the portrait, Genio and the legends are actually pretty good for a barbarous coin, as it had to fool people. I have a barbarous Theodora, wife of Tetrarchy emperor Constantius Chlorus and possibly daughter of Maximian. It was found in Britain but imitates Trier. Like the originals, it was made in the Constantinian era, even though Theodora was empress in 305-306, presumably because the London mint closed in 325 and there was again a lack of coins for commerce. [B]Flavia Maximiana Theodora/Constantinopolis hybrid, c340AD[/B] [ATTACH=full]1234592[/ATTACH] Obverse should be FL MAX THEO-DORAE AVG but is incomplete and backwards. Reverse is Constantinopolis standing on a prow of a ship, holding scepter and shield, ZPT in exergue (the mirror of TRS for Trier)[/QUOTE]
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